Medicine: Death in Cans

The day had been stifling, so chilled vichyssoise straight from the can
seemed like the perfect dish when Banker Sam Cochran, 61, and his wife
Grace, 63, sat down to dinner at their Bedford Village, N.Y., home a
fortnight ago. But they did not finish their shallow bowls of cold
soup. It tasted spoiled, Mrs. Cochran later told their doctor.

Proper Precaution. It was. By 8 the following morning, Cochran
complained of double vision. Shortly thereafter, he began to have
trouble speaking. By the time he was admitted to a hospital later that
afternoon,...